One battle won: 'M' netters grab first-ever regular-season crown
Watching the Michigan women's tennis team this weekend was much like watching a movie for the 20th time. You knew what was going to happen, but you just had to keep watching.
The Wolverines improved to 9-0 in the Big Ten with huge wins over Minnesota and Iowa. How huge? Michigan didn't lose a single match the entire weekend.
QBs shine in spring game
If only one of Michigan's quarterbacks could kick field goals, then coach Lloyd Carr would probably feel a whole lot better about his team.
In Saturday's annual Spring game - won by the Brian Griese-led Maize team, 22-20 - the quartet of quarterbacks gunning for the starting job were significantly more impressive than the team's second-biggest question mark - the kicking game.
Admire Taylor for living his dream
We all come to college chasing a dream. Some of us don't know exactly what that dream is when we get here, yet it's something powerful enough, enticing enough, to get us to leave home, forsake the cozy confines of high school and hometown for the sprawling, intimidating world-unto-itself of Ann Arbor.
Hitters sweep Wildcats, move into first place
During a brief rain shower between games Saturday, the Michigan baseball team doubled as the grounds crew at Fisher Stadium by covering the field with the tarp.
Yesterday, the Wolverines put away the tarp and got out their brooms to make a clean sweep of their four-game series with Northwestern.
Mirror Image: Sharing joys and pains of 'M' track, Bowman, Cornell twins stick together
The Aborigines of Australia consider twins to be evil harbingers of doom for the entire community. In fact, in many African tribes of antiquity, twins were immediately slaughtered upon birth, while their mothers were banished from the village.
Jump to draft leaves holes in 'M': Cagers need to step up to deal with subpar recruits, Taylor's departure
Michigan forward Maurice Taylor announced Friday afternoon that he was foregoing his final year of eligibility at Michigan to make himself available for the NBA Draft.
And although Taylor's status for the future seems somewhat certain, the status of the Michigan basketball team is up in the air.
Nine seniors bid farewell at hockey banquet
At the end of Saturday's Michigan hockey banquet, the nine seniors were called to the stage to sing 'The Victors!'
It was the symbolic end of an era. The Michigan fight song, sung by that group after every victory throughout its four seasons, became the standard.
Morrison, Botterill will wait for NHL: Botterill recovering after shoulder surgery
Graduating Michigan hockey players Brendan Morrison and Jason Botterill do not expect to leave Michigan early to play in the NHL.
Morrison, this season's Hobey Baker Award winner and the Wolverines' captain, and assistant captain Botterill completed their senior seasons, which culminated in a loss to Boston University in the NCAA semifinals on March 27.
Thanks, Michigan, I owe you for my pride
It's a phrase I've uttered - we've all uttered - a thousand times.
I go to Michigan.
We've said it to employers, relatives, friends and friends of friends. And each of us has said it with a varying degree of pride. Some of us are proud we go to Michigan. Others are not so proud.
'M' softball struggles at plate in doubleheader split: Blue scores two runs in two games against Northwestern
EVANSTON - Of all things, you would think pitching would have been the Michigan softball team's biggest problem after the loss of star pitcher Sara Griffin to a broken left arm. But yesterday in Evanston, pitching was the least of Michigan's concerns.
Wolverines looking for answers as hitting slump continues with Griffin out
EVANSTON - It has often been said that pitching wins ball games. And in the first game of a doubleheader at Northwestern, that proved true for the Michigan softball team yesterday.
But as the Wolverines (5-4 Big Ten, 34-12-1 overall) learned in the second game, you need some hitting, too.
Youthful defense a problem
EVANSTON - So Sara Griffin is out. So what?
This is what - the Michigan softball team has gone 4-3 since the loss of the all-world pitcher/third baseman extraordinaire. The three losses include defeats to Purdue and Northwestern.
Holmes masterful in wake of injury to Griffin
EVANSTON - Kelly Holmes is just about the only thing on the Michigan softball team that has been perfect lately.
The senior pitched masterfully yesterday, almost single-handedly beating Northwestern in the first game of a twin bill and keeping the Wolverines in the second game.
Michigan baseball alone in first place, braces for final stretch
The Michigan baseball team is now in first place in the Big Ten. Still, this is no time to rejoice.
At this point of the season last year, the Wolverines were threatening to take first place at 9-3 in the conference.
And last season, Michigan dropped eight of its last 16 conference games - along with two straight losses to Penn State in the Big Ten playoffs - to end the season in fourth.
Blue's Sanborn finds tough road leads to rewards
Nobody said it was going to be easy.
After making the Michigan baseball team as a walk-on his freshman year, sophomore Dan Sanborn was cut from the team during his second year.
Michigan pitchers turn in quality starts over the weekend
With the exception of Matt Herr and closer Tyler Steketee, the Michigan bullpen had a relaxing weekend.
Brian Steinbach pitched a complete game on Friday, and Brian Cranson and Pete Martay each worked six innings on Saturday. Cranson made the start for J.J. Putz, who is out with an elbow injury.
'M' women's netters undefeated in new Tisch Tennis Center: Michigan experiences best season to date in new complex at 6-0
The Michigan women's tennis team played its first match in the new Varsity Tennis Center on Feb. 15, against Western Michigan.
The Wolverines won that match, 9-0, and have since established a home-court advantage.
Michigan men rout Lions in Happy Valley
Improvement was definitely the theme for the Michigan men's tennis team over the weekend. The Wolverines (5-3 Big Ten, 7-10 overall) beat Penn State, 5-2, and there were other things to be excited about, as well.
Michigan took care of business in the singles competition, taking four of six matches from the Nittany Lions (2-5, 9-7). But for only the second time in the Big Ten season, Michigan took the doubles point.
Woods' win brings down color barrier
LOS ANGELES _ Somehow it seemed fitting, in the same week that the United States stands poised to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one man breaking the color barrier, that another barrier would come tumbling down.
'M' track answers questions: Wolverines redeem themselves in Raleigh after time off
The Michigan women's track team went into this weekend's Duke Invitational in Raleigh, N.C., with more questions than answers.
The primary question being: Would the Wolverines allow their subpar performance two weeks ago at the Raleigh Relays to develop into a three-week slump, or would they instead respond confidently to the Duke meet's high level of competition?
Michigan men score five wins
The Michigan men's track team headed south this weekend to tangle with the No. 1 team in the nation.
The 13th-ranked Wolverines competed in the Arkansas Invitational, hosted by the top-ranked Razorbacks.
Mother Nature toys with Michigan men's track down south
One of the main reasons the Michigan track and field team heads south for the early portion of the outdoor season is to experience warm, sunny weather.
That practice, while sound in theory, has not produced the results the Wolverines had hoped for. The first two meets, at Wake Forest and Texas, were dominated by incessant rainfall.
Foreign-born Wolverines lead 'M' women
Coming to America.
Besides being the title of a hysterical 1980s Eddie Murphy comedy, it could also summarize the story of many of the Michigan women's track team's most talented athletes.
'M' tumblers to be tested at NCAAs: Despite top-ranking, Wolverines will face nation's best in Gainesville
The time-honored phrase - if you do your job, everything else will naturally fall into place - held true for the Michigan women's gymnastics team last weekend.
That phrase and its connotations may be the benchmark of a good gymnastics team like the Wolverines, which focuses only on its performance at the moment instead of looking up at the scoreboard and worrying about other teams' achievements.
College-aged Woods wins The Masters in record-setting fashion
AUGUSTA, Ga. - Tiger Woods finished with a fabulous final-round flourish yesterday on his stirring 18-hole victory march to golf glory at The Masters.
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